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MINNEAPOLIS _ Her face flushed, Rosemary Lamont sat on the gym floor one recent afternoon, listening to her trainer's impassioned commands.
"Sit up tall and lift that leg," the trainer coached, counting down the remaining seconds. "Five, four, three, two, one. Beautiful!"
Lamont smiled, exhaling loudly.

DALLAS _ They're fixated by fitness magazines, addicted to abs workouts. They measure what they eat, they know what they weigh, and they may not be the gender you surmise.

The message has been loud and clear: lather up with sunscreen before you hit the beach, the park or anywhere the sun shines.
But many of us aren't listening.

As spring turns to summer and warm-weather clothing reveals body bulges, many people think about shaping up by joining a health club.
That can be a good idea for some, but joining a fitness center is also one of the trickiest purchases a consumer can make.

Two interesting studies have come up over the past month on heart attacks. Scientists have found a temporary condition that can quadruple your chance of having a heart attack. Scientists have found that job stress leads to more heart attacks, but there is a treatment that can reduce job stress-related heart attacks by 50 percent.

Summer time is all about taking a dip in the pool, but it's no fun when it makes you sick.

Early detection of cancer is the best chance of cure, right? Maybe not.
A growing body of counterintuitive evidence suggests that some cancer-screening tests _ including those for breast, prostate, colon, lung and cervical cancer _ may be unnecessary and, worse, can do more harm than good.

ATLANTA _ It's the call no parent wants to get.
"Mrs. Savelli, your daughter is conscious, but she was just hit by a car that was going 48 mph." Carmen Savelli will always remember last Jan. 13, the day a minivan hit her while she was on a training run with the Piedmont College women's cross-country team in Demorest, Ga.

Summer break means more fun in the sun, but there's nothing fun about a sunburn. Just a few serious sunburns can increase your child's risk of skin cancer later in life. Even a tan indicates damage from the sun's ultraviolet rays. Each year, more than 9,000 people die in the U.S. from melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Here are tips to protect your child:

ANDOVER TOWNSHIP-Primary Health Network officials, located at their corp. office in Sharon, PA, are requesting Ashtabula County Commissioners to allow annexation of a parcel of their land on Route 7 into Andover Village. The four to five-acre parcel of property is being sold to relocated St. Joseph's ER Center, which is now existing across on the west side of Route 7 and south of Andover public square.